IDF forces and Border Police entered the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber Monday morning, in order to begin demolishing Alaa Abu Jamal’s house.

This past October, Jamal, an employee of Bezeq, ran over civilians standing at a bus stop in the capital city’s Malchei Yisrael Street. He then got out of the car and proceeded to stab others nearby. Rabbi Yeshiyahu Krishevsky was killed, and a total of eight people were wounded in the attack.

The green light to demolish the terrorist’s house was aproved by the High Court two weeks ago. The judges rejected a petition against the movie, which had been filed by the families of the Jamal and another terrorist, Bahaa Alian. Alian, together with Bilal Abu-Ghanem, carried out a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on October 13 on the same day as Jamal’s attack.

Justices Yitzhak Amit and Tzvi Zilbertal ruled that the demolition of the houses must be carried out according to the demolition orders issued by the IDF’s Central Command and Home Front Command.

The judges noted that in this context one must follow earlier court rulings which permitted demolitions of terrorists’ homes and which, according to the judges, is still valid even today.